Witness:
Prohibition
against disquali-
fication based on
race or color.
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Sec. 53. No person shall
be incompetent, as a witness,
on account of race or color,
unless hereafter so declared
by Act of the General As-
sembly.
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Sec. 53. No person shall
be incompetent, as a witness,
on account of race or color,
unless hereafter so declared
by Act of the General As-
sembly.
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Restriction on
county debt for
internal im-
provements.
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Sec. 54. No County of
this State shall contract any
debt, or obligation, in the
construction of any Rail-
road, Canal, or other Work
of Internal Improvement,
nor give, or loan its credit
to, or in aid of any as-
sociation, or corporation,
unless authorized by an Act
of the General Assembly.
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Sec. 54. No County of
this State shall contract any
debt, or obligation, in the
construction of any Rail-
road, Canal, or other Work
of Internal Improvement,
nor give, or loan its credit
to, or in aid of any as-
sociation, or corporation,
unless authorized by an Act
of the General Assembly,
which shall be published for
two months before the next
election for members of the
House of Delegates in the
newspapers published in
such County, and shall also
be approved by a majority
of all the members elected
to each House of the Gen-
eral Assembly at its next
Session after said election.
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Sec. 53. The General
Assembly before authoris-
ing the sale of the State's
interest in the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, and be-
fore prescribing regulations
and conditions for said sale,
shall pass all laws that may
be necessary to authorize
the Counties of Allegany,
Washington, Frederick and
Montgomery, or any one of
them, to create a debt by
the issue of bonds or other-
wise, so as to enable them,
or any of them, to become
the purchasers of said in-
terest.
Sec. 52. The Governor,
Comptroller, and Treasurer
of the State are hereby au-
thorized, conjointly, or any
two of them, to exchange
the State's interest as stock-
holder and creditor in the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail
Road Company for an equal
amount of the bonds or reg-
istered debt now owing by
the State; and, subject to
such regulations and con-
ditions as the General As-
sembly may from time to
time prescribe, to sell the
State's interest in the other
works of internal improve-
ment, whether as a stock-
holder or a creditor; also,
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